This grant is for strengthening the nation’s food safety and emergency response capabilities. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is offering cooperative agreements to state, local, and tribal Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) laboratories. This initiative aims to significantly expand their capacity for threat agent testing, focusing on microbiological and chemical agents via FERN methods. Funding will cover essential training, equipment, supplies, and personnel expenses. These awards will enhance participating labs’ ability to analyze food matrices, improve food defense assignments, and strengthen outbreak response, ensuring swift and accurate reactions to potential threats to the nation’s food supply.
Opportunity ID: 52795
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | USDA-FSIS-03152010 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreements |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Agriculture Food and Nutrition |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 25 |
| Assistance Listings: | 10.479 — Food Safety Cooperative Agreements |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Mar 15, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Apr 23, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Apr 23, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | May 23, 2010 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Current State, Local, or Tribal FERN member laboratories with active status. The Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) integrates the nation’s food-testing laboratories at the local, state, and federal levels into a network that is able to respond to emergencies involving biological, chemical, or radiological contamination of food. Please visit http://www.fernlab.org for more information regarding FERN including eligibility requirements and how to become a member. (note: if you’re not already a FERN member you are not eligible for this funding opportunity) |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Food Safety Inspection Service |
| Description: | The Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) currently comprises federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories with varying capacities to perform threat agent testing. The FERN division in USDAs Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is seeking to award up to 25 cooperative agreements targeting state, local, and tribal FERN labs to augment threat agent testing capacities and expand the number of member laboratories able to perform threat agent testing for the Network. The agreements will enhance the ability to analyze for microbiological and chemical threat agents utilizing FERN methods and improve laboratory capacities for food defense assignments and outbreak response. The agreements will support FERN threat agent method training, the purchase of equipment and supplies required by the selected methods, and reimbursement of personnel expenses. These CAP awards are for the purpose of enhancing and expanding the capacity and capability of the participating laboratories to be able to analyze various food matrices for microbiological and chemical threat agents to quickly and accurately respond to any potential threats to the nations food supply. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Michael Myers
Staff Officer Phone 706-546-3664 Email:michael.myers1@fsis.usda.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 52795 Full Announcement-1 -> 2010 fsis cap announcement grantsgov.pdf
Folder 52795 Other Supporting Documents-Project Description Template 1 -> cap project description template.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Michael Myers Staff Officer Phone 706-546-3664 Email: michael.myers1@fsis.usda.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.479 | PKG00017216 | Apr 23, 2010 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
52795 SF424-2.0.pdf
52795 SF424A-1.0.pdf
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